The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival returns to the Camelot Theatres in Palm Springs to celebrate its 14th year on May 16-19, 2013. Writer and Film Noir Foundation director Alan K. Rode, who is producing and hosting the festival for the sixth consecutive year, promises another fun-filled weekend of classic noir enlivened by special guest star appearances and introductions by noted film historians.
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Popular festival well-known for screening rare and rarely seen Film Noir classics;
All Access Passes on sale now.
The Palm Springs Cultural Center is pleased to announce the 2012 screening schedule for the…
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SAVE THE DATE:
Twelfth Annual Arthur Lyons Film Festival
Coming May 10-13, 2012
Popular festival well-known for screening rare and rarely seen Film Noir classics;
All Access Passes go on sale April 1, 2012.
The Palm Springs Cultural Center announced today that…
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The 12th Annual Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival is scheduled for May 10 - 13, 2012.
Founded in 2000 by the late mystery author and Palm Springs community leader Arthur Lyons, this unique festival features an eclectic mixture of landmark and…
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No Way Out: Existential Motifs in the Film Noir, is a worthwhile essay in the, Film Noir Reader.
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The Opening Night of the 2011 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival will include a very special appearance by actress Stefanie Powers. Miss Powers, perhaps best known for her role on the popular television series, Hart to Hart, will attend the screening of the 1962 thriller Experiment in Terror (7:30pm on Thursday, May 12).
Directed by Blake Edwards, Experiment in Terror starred Glenn… Continue
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Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival
Announces partial list of Screenings;
Guest Appearances For 2011 Edition
The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival, which is being presented by the Palm Springs Cultural Center at the Camelot Theatres from May 12th through the 15th, has announced a partial list of films and guest appearances for its eleventh edition.
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Film Noir Festival tops all past years
Bruce Fessier • The Desert Sun
• May 18, 2010 …
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Beloved Actor Ernest Borgnine
to Open Tenth Annual Arthur Lyons’ Film Noir Festival
With Screening of “Pay or Die.”
The stars are coming out for the Tenth…
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Although most baby boomers probably remember her either as Timmy’s mother, Ruth on Lassie, or better yet, as Maureen Robinson on Lost in Space, June Lockhart’s amazing career in movies, television, and on Broadway, started long before either of her well-loved television characters were ever conceived by their creators.
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The
2010 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival, which is being presented by the
Palm Springs Cultural Center, is celebrating its
Tenth Anniversary with a very special selection of films, and some extra special guest appearances. Films and stars confirmed to date include: …
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The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival is pleased to announce
the confirmation of the following screenings and guests for our 10th
anniversary festival to be held May 13-16, 2010 at the Camelot Theatres in beautiful
Palm Springs, California:
Bury Me Dead (1947) with special guest appearance by JUNE…
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Amid a haze of cigarette smoke and uneaten food, the family of Enda Doyle (Malcolm McDowell) gathers in Dublin for his wake. A university librarian, poet, and complicated man, he has left behind a trail of unresolved issues, a dysfunctional family, and a disturbing mystery. “Red Roses and Petrol”, a darkly comic feature film from director Tamar Simon Hoffs, explores the emotional twists and turns of familial relationships.
“Red Roses and Petrol” won first prize at the Avignon Film…
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The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival hosted a packed house last night for the opening of the ninth annual tribute to all things Noir. Noir fans, local residents and several stars came out and walked the Black Carpet before the screening of BIGGER THAN LIFE - the 1956 Film Noir Classic starring James Mason, Walter Matthau, and Barbara Rush (who made a special guest appearance).
Alan Rode, Festival Director, opened the festival and thanked the Palm Springs Cultural…
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Opening Night for the 2009 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Film Festival, which is being presented by the Palm Springs Cultural Center, is just days away, and the Opening Night Festivities promise to make the Ninth edition of the popular annual event the best ever!
BIGGER THAN LIFE, a forgotten, noir-stained classic directed by the great Nicholas Ray (Rebel without a Cause, In a Lonely Place, They Live by Night), opens the Festival, and will be screened at 7:30pm, with an Opening Reception…
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Long before she became Blanche Hudson in WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE, and long before her daughter Christina made her infamous as MOMMIE DEAREST, Joan Crawford had already earned her place as one of the Queens of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Her movie career encompassed more than 45 years and 80 films, and included her Oscar Award-winning performance as Mildred Pierce in the movie by the same name. And although she had some great lines over the years (both onscreen and offscreen), some…
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